Mixed Media Monday – A Cup of Tea with a Bit of Cold

| July 14, 2008

What a fascinating selection this week.  I have been working on a piece for submission to Cloth Paper Scissors.  The call is for pieces that represent “A Tea Party.”  And low and behold Mixed Media Monday selected “tea” for this week.  I think one might call that Serendipity. The piece is for my mother-in-law who [...]

Running for My Life

| July 12, 2008

I got up this morning with an attitude change, a significant attitude change.  Like so many of us, I have a day job.  Though stressful, it is a very cool job.  However, with that said, like so many others, we are going through downsizing, restructuring, and “right-sizing.”  And being a stress eater coupled with the [...]

Mixed Media Monday – Pretty in Pink

| July 7, 2008

Well I am a little late posting today.  But, I still want to share my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is to use a singular color and all its variations.  So, I thought of my dear friend Kelly Kilmer and decided I would work in pink.  I have this great vintage image [...]

Mixed Media Monday – The Dancing Librarian

| June 30, 2008

Well it is Sunday and I am working on my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is “dance.”  What to do?  What to do?  Well I knew I wanted some sort of a dancer and originally it was going to be a couple dancing.  Then I found this vintage image from Artchix Studio.  [...]

Fort Collin’s Rocky Mountain Biennial Show Submission – Epilogue

| June 26, 2008

Well to my surprise the notice came in on Tuesday.  “It is with regret that we did not accept any of your work….”  I should have been really sad about it.  But, my response was quite different then when I received the rejection notice from the Emerging Artist submission.  I was oddly not really sad.  [...]

Mixed Media Monday – What about India?

| June 23, 2008

Well this is it, a collage for the latest challenge of “place”.  Once again I had bazillion ideas and this time I finally settled on my piece “What About India”.  It is a collage of all things from India.  The background is a newspaper from India that my husband brought back from his visit there [...]

Dos Corazon

| June 23, 2008

Well I did it.  On Saturday, I turned in my piece for the show.  The Artists’ Nook is hosting the Transformation of the Mundane.  It will run July 3rd through the 31st.  It should be great fun.  The goal is to create an art piece using an item from everyday life.  I can’t wait to [...]

Commissions – A Cellar Full of Noise

| June 17, 2008

This week is the big week!!  James Judd and Son Vineyard starts bottling their two newest wines.  They are a Tempranillo and a Cabernet Sauvignon.  Why am I talking about this?  Well last year during the Castro Street Fair, James (the son) and his partner stopped in my booth.  They took a business card and left.  [...]

Mixed Media Monday – Digital Collage

| June 15, 2008

Now that I have a blog, I want to participate in some “challenges.”  So, with that said, I have been working this week to submit an image to Mixed Media Monday.  I first discovered the site via an article in Artful Blogging by Somerset Studio Summer 2008 issue.  There are several cool articles in their [...]

First Advertisment

| June 10, 2008

I just received an e-mail from Sarah Fishburn.  They have advertising space in the July issue of Pasticcio.  I am going to go for it.  It drops in July and is a great time to advertise my new website.  I think I may try to fit a note in about the Santa Fe show in [...]